Draft-yoke for railway-car draft-rigging.



, l. F. 07C0NN0R.' D'RAFTXGKEV FOR RAILWAY CAR DRAFT RIGGING. l Armmon Arnm-lfsa. 24. ma. neuzwzo Aus. 12.1914.

1,136,036.` Patented Apr. 20,1915.

, INVENTOR ymw /pf O d/f/yor i JoHN o'ooNNon, or onion To `ill goltomzt mag/concern: f.

Beit known that I, JonN F. OCoNNon,

- citizen ofthe United states, resida at d Sate Chicago, in the county of' Cook an `Alof Illinois, have `invented a certain new and' useful c Improvement in JDr'aft--fiiokes for Railway-Car DraftfRiggmg, of which the descrlptlon,

folIowngisafull, clear, concise, and exact reference being had to the accompanying drawings,- forming a part of this specification. v i

` -My invention relates to improvements in 'draft yokesfor railway car draft rigging.

The object of Amy invention is to provide a: draft yoke having provision for maintain-.-

ing the draft gear therein in central position 'issued November 6,

with reference tothe central line of 'draft of the draft rigging.

. My invention is an improvement upon my previous invention upon which a patent was 1906, as No. 835,249.

In the accompanying drawings forming. a

part of this specification Figure 1 is a side elevation of a railway car draft rigging embodying myinvention. Fig, 2. is a plan view.` "Fig 3 is a vertical cross sectlonon line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings 1 represents d raft sills i i or parts of thecar frame to which the draft rigging is` attached, 5, 5 front stop members, A6, 6 rear stop members, 7 the front follower, 8 the rear follower, 9 the tie plate suitably secured tothe draft sills,- 10 the dra'w bar, 11 the draft gear, 12 thedraft yoke, and 13 a coupler key.

The draft yoke 12 consists of a pair of A GofILrLiNors, assmno emesse, rumors.'

y specification Letters Patent lnw11`evmi mea Febuary a4',- 1e1,"ser 1a1 im.` v'sonas. neae'we'a august 12, i914.

.one on -either side of thereof, with inwardly cent the draft gear 11 I shape of the adjacent portions-of the draft 3. To rr f" DRAFT-Yoke Fon mlrIQwaY-cnn'"AnnuaireMeerane..

parallel side extensions of tli'edraw bar-or fratenteanpr. ao,- i915. v

Inseam,

loops 14, 14, extendinl at their front ends connected thereto' by the coupler key 13. The loops 14, 14 are each` provided. with a lateral opening 15, and within the said open# ings there is received the followers, and between them the draft gear 11. 'Each of saidl loops 14, 14 is prvided ,along itsv outer edges,

and preferably the middle portion turned'vfianges 16, 16, the said flanges having their edges adjaconformed to the gear or compression resisting member," as shownat the"numerals 17, 17 in Fig;y 3 ofb the drawings. The flanges with which the yoke is thus provided serve tomaintan the draft' gear inlcentral position with .refershell.

, JOHN F. OCONNOR., Witnesses:

ELEA'Nn L.' NASH, JQHN A. MARTIN-Kus.

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e draw bar 1U, and. 

